[Thunar-dev] Hidding system directories

[Marcos Iuato]

Hi,

The use case is we develop a produt for remote boot, that is used in 
schools, institutions, companies, etc. The users are people that are not 
used with computers, so if the file manager or applications shows 
several directories that for them that dont make any sense, we could 
improve usability if we just not showing what they just dont need to see.

But for an sysadmin, or others users with admins profiles they could see 
  all the systems directories for maintenace or development tasks.

I have solved this problem, to hide directories for users using gobohide 
  kernels patch from gobolinux. It worked perfectly for ours needs.

Cheers,
Marcos Iuato

Danny Milosavljevic escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:22:28 -0300, Marcos Iuato wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>The users that are going to iteract with thunar are not linux experts, 
>>so for questions of usability, there is a way to hide the system 
>>directory, so the users will not explore the files that are in the 
>>system directories.
> 
> 
> Not as far as I know.
> 
> 
>>But there others applications that list the files form file system like 
>>firefox, openoffice, etc. How could I filter the listing of ths system 
>>directories in global way, so all application that can list files from 
>>file system will filter it.
> 
> 
> I suggest you don't.
> 
> Retrofitting a "nicer" tree on top of the UNIX tree seems like a good
> idea for the first ten minutes maybe...
> 
> The view of the system needs to be _always_ consistent, or else the OS is a
> joke.
> 
> No "program A sees it this way" and "program B sees it that completely
> different way" please. 
> If the UNIX tree is broken (is it?), fix the UNIX tree. 
> 
> And I should think that every user can grasp:
> 1) "/home/<username>" (usually) is your home directory
> 2) you can store stuff there, since it's yours. 
> 3) You usually can't store stuff anywhere else.
> 
> But maybe that's just me.
> 
> Note that the ".hidden" file would be nice anyway IF the user could edit
> it in the file manager and if, should the file manager hide files, it said
> so (in the status bar), with a link to see them. But nooo, not with
> nautilus.
> 
> Then again, what's the use case for hidden files again? Ah right, none.
> 
> cheers,
>   Danny
> 
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